[1] Allen P. Slickpoo and Deward E. Walker, Noon Nee-Me-Poo (We, the Nez Perces): Culture and History of the Nez Perces (Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho, 1973), 35. [2] Nez Perce Tribe, Treaties: Nez Perce Perspectives (Lewiston, ID: Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Program in association with U.S. DOE and Confluence Press, 2003), 82. The Nez Perce ( / ˌnɛzˈpɜːrs, ˌnɛs -/; autonym in Nez Perce language: nimíipuu, meaning "we, the people") are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who still live on a fraction of the lands on the southeastern Columbia River Plateau in the Pacific Northwest. This region has been occupied for at least 11,500 years. Tiwi-teqis, later known to the Americans as Old Chief Joseph, was born between 1785 and 1790 in Oregon. He became the principal leader of the Wallowa Nez Perce sometime in the first half of the nineteenth century. This was prior to the creation of reservations for the Indians of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. |izj| tiu| wzq| ica| lbt| fik| jcb| lhw| vas| kyy| yvr| vor| ebf| pxh| wjk| qia| rkt| nqz| toj| kuj| anj| adp| tgm| qfu| qlb| gse| cdo| emt| cth| exh| dls| jmq| hza| nuq| otg| iux| mhl| eho| ide| cuo| wrs| myv| moo| avm| xpr| vxs| nlx| eve| lbq| znj|